Great Western Coffee Shop

Goodness me.

Taking the 08:26 on Saturday as an example, it would be quicker for me to take the 55 bus from Chippenham Station (with a 10 minute connection). Despite going round the houses it would drop me closer to home and I’d be back around 10 minutes earlier after avoiding the walk home from Swindon Station!

It's what appears to be crass / thoughtless timetabling of connections during engineering works.   But then there may be reasons.   They cynical one is the suggestion made that the services provided meet the franchise requirement, and cost money to run.  It's commercially more attractive to suppress demand so that only one bus has to be run rather than two, and a great way to do that within the rules is to make people wait 45 minutes in the middle of what would normally be a 29 minute journey. I really hope that is NOT the reason, by the way.   Other suggestions as to why would be very welcome.

6. Obligations of the Franchisee in the event of disruption to railway passenger services

6.1 In the event of any planned or unplanned disruption to railway passenger services operated on the Routes, or on other parts of the network which are reasonably local to the Routes, the Franchisee shall:
(a) without prejudice to any other provision of this Schedule 1.2, notify the Secretary of State promptly where such disruption would materially (having regard to both duration and scale) prejudice the Franchisee's ability to deliver the Timetable or deliver the Timetable in accordance with the Train Plan;
(b) co-operate with Network Rail and other Train Operators to act in the overall interests of passengers using such railway passenger services, including using all reasonable endeavours to ensure that such disruption is not concentrated on a particular part of the network, except where such concentration either:
  (i) would be in the overall interests of passengers using such Passenger Services or railway passenger services and would not result in disproportionate inconvenience to any group of passengers; or
  (ii) is reasonably necessary as a result of the cause or the location of the disruption; and
(c) use all reasonable endeavours to provide or secure the provision of alternative transport arrangements in accordance with paragraph 6.2. 6.2 The Franchisee shall use all reasonable endeavours to provide or secure the provision of alternative transport arrangements to enable passengers affected by any disruption referred to in paragraph

6.1 to complete their intended journeys in accordance with this paragraph 6.2. In particular, the Franchisee shall use all reasonable endeavours to:
(a) ensure that such alternative transport arrangements are of reasonable quality, of a reasonably similar frequency to the Passenger Services included in the Timetable which such arrangements replace and reasonably fit for the purpose of the journey to be undertaken;
(b) transport passengers to, or as near as reasonably practicable to, the end of their intended journey on such Passenger Services, having particular regard to the needs of any disabled persons and, where appropriate, making additional arrangements for such disabled persons to complete their intended journey;
(c) provide adequate and prominent publicity of such alternative transport arrangements in advance, subject, in the case of unplanned disruption, to the Franchisee having sufficient notice of such disruption to enable it to provide such publicity;
(d) provide sufficient alternative transport capacity for the reasonably foreseeable demand for the disrupted Passenger Services; and
(e) ensure, if any planned disruption overruns, that there is a reasonable contingency arrangement for such alternative transport arrangements to continue for the duration of such overrun.

Got you string meter handy?

For the record: about 2 miles from Bradford Junction...temperature 2 degrees Celsius. Recent snow shower but melting on contact with the ground. Met Office forecast is p<10% for precipitation each hour up to 16:00; temperature above freezing until then.

For the record: about 2 miles from Bradford Junction...temperature 2 degrees Celsius. Recent snow shower but melting on contact with the ground. Met Office forecast is p<10% for precipitation each hour up to 16:00; temperature above freezing until then.

Looks ripe for a cream tea.  Oh sorry wrong thread.   ;D

Looks ripe for a cream tea.  Oh sorry wrong thread.   ;D

CORNISH of course! As implied from "the Palace"  ;D ;D ;D

All green and lovely in Melksham.

Following from 02:45 this a,.m.

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Hmm... it appears that the Melksham route wasn't closed all day, as 1Z05 and 1Z06 (Bristol-Paddington and Weston-Paddington) used the route between 0630 and 0800.

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but not today

..................what on Earth is in those bottles?

Raw Zyder

http://www.wellho.net/mouth/3883_Apple-Pressing-Day-2012.html

May God have mercy on your liver!